Chronic lung disease of prematurity and respiratory outcome at eight years of age.

Aim: The study aimed to determine the respiratory outcome of children who had chronic lung disease of prematurity (CLD) compared with a preterm control group of children at school age.

Methods: Fifty-two preterm infants with CLD born between 26 and 33 weeks gestation were assessed regarding respiratory illness with 47 having lung function testing. Information regarding respiratory illness was obtained from 52 children in the birthweight-matched control group of whom 45 had lung function testing.

Successful use of surfactant to treat severe intrapulmonary hemorrhage after iatrogenic lung injury--A case report.

Objective: To describe the beneficial clinical effect of the use of surfactant in a patient with severe unilateral pulmonary hemorrhage after iatrogenic lung injury during corrective surgery for congenital heart defects.

Design: Case report.

Setting: Pediatric cardiac intensive care unit of a tertiary care hospital.

Beneficial hemodynamic response of transthoracic cardiac pacing in a 2 kg preterm neonate.

Objective: To describe the beneficial hemodynamic effect of transthoracic external pacing compared with epicardial pacing in a 2 kg premature neonate with congenital complete heart block, hydrops and complex congenital heart disease.

Methods: Transthoracic epicardial pacing was instituted at a rate of 120 beats/min to treat life-threatening bradycardia (HR 50-60 beats/min), hypotension (BP 45/20 mmHg) and severe lactic acidosis (pH 7.18, lactate 7.